Subject: Re: Slow death?
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 02/09/2002 19:03:52
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:22:10AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> This is one of those lame ``my machine crashes'', e-mails :-(
>
> Ignoring:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=14496
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=15547
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=15299 (fixed)
>
> I'm still having fun keeping my G4 Ti up.
>
> The load isn't that typical, it constantly builds and tests FSF
> toolchains (compiler, linker, assembler, debugger) and dejagnu/expect.
> Oh, and mozilla ...
>
> I think the symptoms suggest some resource running out. Typically I'm
> not around when it hangs (did I say constantly? :-). But on the very
> few occasions when I have it appears to slowly (well over 30 seconds)
> die - one window hangs, next window hangs, mouse becomes sluggish ...
Maybe you're running out of swap ? Can you make something to record swap
usage (mrtg ? :) and see how it goes before the crash ?
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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